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Liquidmetal iPhone 5 Concept
With the WWDC just around the corner, the rumor mill is starting its frenzy of wild guesses on what the iPhone 5 might have in store for us. One such rumor suggests that Apple will use Liquidmetal alloys in the upcoming iPhone, making it thinner, lighter and more resistant to impact damage.
Apple purchased worldwide exclusive rights to use Liquidmetal in April of last year, so this rumor is actually plausible. Read more 
Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Read more
Rebuilding Spotlight’s Index on OS X
After using the Alfred App for sometime I found it not indexing and searching properly. Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.
Solution: rebuild the spotlight index. Downside: I turned it off. What’s going on behind the scenes is actually fairly trivial, and it’s possible to simply do everything via the command line in terminal. Read more
Apple to Release Mac OS X Lion Through App Store
Apple is taking the best thinking from iPad and bringing it all to the Mac with Mac OS X Lion, available in summer 2011. Apple will make the switch to a new kind of digital distribution for its operating system upgrades by releasing the software first through its new Mac App Store, AppleInsider has learned. Read more
7 Great Products for Mac-lovers
My new favorite tumblr blog, Tsuvo Social, has posted a great mashup of morning Apple sweetness. Sarah was lucky enough to stumble upon the company TwelveSouth and she was absolutely stunned with their amazing accessories for Apple products. She will now share with you all of the products they offer — a lot of which most people will be purchasing after reviewing these items. Read more
Apple Responds to Adobe
When Steve’s Thoughts on Flash was officially posted on the big stage, you bet Adobe had an opinion.
First, there’s “Open”, he stated first in his list of six major problems with Adobe’s pride and joy, Flash. In Steve’s open letter he states: “Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short”. Read more